Major breakthrough in 60-year hunt for first ever successful lunar lander on Moon

Sixty years after Luna 9’s pioneering journey, researchers believe they may have found the craft’s final resting place.
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The missing Apollo 11 moon landing tapes, NASA’s decades-long search for the original broadcast

Apollo 11’s “live” moon landing was seen by the world, but the highest-quality original signal was recorded on rare telemetry tapes that later vanished inside NASA’s archives. Decades later, a long investigation,
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Private lunar lander may have fallen over while touching down near the moon's south pole

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have fallen over. Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Say They May Have Found a Long-Lost Lunar Lander—the First to Successfully Touch Down on the Moon 60 Years Ago

Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9
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Intuitive Machines is hoping for a moon-landing streak this week

A Houston-based space company just released a tantalizing sneak preview — an image sequence of its robotic spacecraft flying over the moon's south pole, near its planned landing site. This marks Intuitive Machines' second journey to the moon, following ...
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The First Spacecraft to Survive a Moon Landing Vanished in 1966 and AI May Have Finally Found It

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.
Newsday

Here's a look at moon landing hits and misses

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the moon through a NASA-sponsored program. Within 24 hours, the ...
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Kim Kardashian Says the Moon Landing Was Fake. There’s a Lesson Here for Schools

Exploring claims on the internet deepens instruction by helping students understand how knowledge is created and when it can be trusted. Viral incidents, such as Kardashian’s moon landing proclamation, can help students spot the manipulated “evidence” that props up conspiracy theories.